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Private Victor Albert Burton

Published in Journal 57

Member Doug Burton loaned me some WWI items concerning his great uncle, Victor Albert Burton, who lived with his parents at Foster Street, Harlow.

Victor who worked as a gardener joined the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. After his basic training at Warley Barracks, near Brentwood, (which was the depot for the Essex Regiment), he was sent with the 1st Battalion as part of the British Expeditionary Force fighting in France and Belgium.

Victor sadly died of wounds on the 25th September, 1917, aged 23 years of age, and is buried in Dozingham Military Cemetery. His name also appears on the Harlow Old Town War Memorial.

His brother Bert also served in the 1914-18 conflict, but survived the war.

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He wrote ‘…these are the boys from my hut, after returning home from a route march.’
The picture on the left shows the temporary grave marker. These temporary markers (few of which survived) were eventually replaced by the stone gravestones by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 21 |

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Journal No. 57 September 2015 Journal

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